What do you use to protect your chainstay?

I'm using a neoprene chainstay protector at the moment but thinking about fitting a bionicon. Not sure if the tie-wraps will work very well over the neoprene protector. Looking for alternative ideas - what does everyone else use?

This and it only sticks to itself and offers loads of protection and you remove it and there's no sticky residue left on the frame. Start behind chain ring and finish at cassette with a stealth zip tie. And cheap and neat to and you could probably put a lizard skin overt the top if you want.

One roll has done a couple of regular tubular chainstays on hardtails so far with roughly half width overlap and there's quite a bit left on the roll. Certainly enough to do at least one more chainstay, probably enough to do another two. Obviously you wouldn't get so many beefy swingarms out of a roll though...

If you're on a clutch mech check you're not getting any heel rub before removing the protector. My winter shoes (which I wear quite a bit) would do some damage to an unprotected stay, which on a carbon frame seems like a recipe for disaster {also need a wee bit of protection on the non-drive side for this reason).

when my gran died, I had her stuffed and mounted by the local taxidermist.. She spent many happy years on our mantlepiece, but after an unfortunate incident with our pet Labrador Steven, we had to find a new home for her..

It was at this point that I removed most of the straw and sawdust that she was stuffed with and wrapped the perfectly preserved pelt around my chainstay.. held in place with a fine spun rope that I had made from her gossamar leg hair..

I now have a well protected stay and also I get the benefit of granny's smiling face beaming up at me every time I look back to see who I've just overtaken..

For years I was using inner tubes, but my new frame came with a bolt on plastic protector which seems to be holding up ok. The underside has some scuffs from chain slap though, so hopefully my new Shadow Plus mech will help to reduce that happening in future.

I have a Bionicon on one of my bikes with a non-clutch mech. I took the velcro neoprene Lizard Skin off as I didn't want to cable tie the Bionicon over the Neoprene - I like to take the Neoprene off when cleaning the bike. So I wrapped some transparent Heli-tape round the chainstay. Works very well and pretty invisible. I do still get chain slap due to the non-clutch mech, but it is massively reduced.

+1 for the inner tube and leccy tape. Super stealth on the BFe. Also wrap leccy tape around the bottom part of the seat stay just incase. Same principle applied to the white Mongoose but using white duck tape instead.

Inner tube on one bike and the remains of a Panaracer tyre which lasted but a 1/2ml before ripping side out of it Decided that it cost way too much to bin it after such a short rode it gets recycled for other stuff......Never bought another Panaracer since.....